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LIGHT QUANTA; DE BROGLIE WAVES; DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT QUANTA; THE COMPTON EFFECT

George Birtwistle-2009-07-20-Cambridge University Press eBooks
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The history of the corpuscular and wave controversy in optical theory is well known. At the end of the last century physicists had no doubt as to the wave character of light, and the acceptance of the wave theory meant the rejection of the corpuscular theory. The possibility of both being correct and helpful to one another had not been much thought about and still less explored.

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The history of the corpuscular and wave controversy in optical theory is well known. At the end of the last century physicists had no doubt as to the wave character of light, and the acceptance of the wave theory meant the rejection of the corpuscular theory. The possibility of both being correct and helpful to one another had not been much thought about and still less explored.

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Matter wavePhysicsDiffractionCompton scatteringOpticsPhotonQuantum mechanicsQuantum

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